UN Takes Concrete Steps Toward Global Tax

In Doha, Qatar, late Saturday, delegates attending the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took concrete steps
toward a new global treaty to address global warming that will transform
the economic structure of the world with a new global tax. To be
completed by 2015, the UN expects every nation to implement it by 2020,
even though the globe has not warmed for the past 16 years.Next
year the UNFCCC’s Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres will call a
“significant number of meetings and workshops…to prepare the new
agreement.” Then in 2014, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will “convene
leaders to mobilize the political will to ensure the 2015 deadline is
met.”The new treaty would be destructive to the American economy
by capping greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, the gas emitted
when fossil fuels are burned. The UN insists that fossil fuels be
replaced with solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, but even
with billions of stimulus dollars and taxpayer subsidies, those sources
produce woefully inadequate amounts of energy.Rather than an
environmental outcome, the new treaty is more likely to produce an
economic windfall for Figueres, as the green economy has done for former
VP Al Gore. Her brother, a former President of Costa Rica, is heavily
invested in sustainable development, the green economy.The UN’s
only legally binding treaty to cap greenhouse gas emissions, the Kyoto
Protocol, was extended even though it will only address about 15% of the
world’s greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S. Senate has never ratified
the Kyoto Protocol, while Canada and Japan have withdrawn from the
treaty.The UN claims that the 2015 treaty will be applied to all
nations, but its “common but differentiated” rules will force rich
nations to send their wealth to poor nations. Likewise, rich nations
will develop and transfer technologies to poor nations.It was
also decided in Doha to give the Green Climate Fund a new home in the
Republic of Korea. The GCF will “launch [its yet to be defined]
activities in 2014.” To fill the $100 billion annual fund with private
and public money by 2020, the UN wants a first-ever global tax — on
international monetary transactions, or on international shipping and
airlines, or on carbon emissions.Another new fund was created to
pay for “loss and damages” caused by climate change. Island states were
adamant about its creation because they have been convinced that glacial
melting will sink their islands. The Obama administration agreed to the
new fund that amounts to a blank check to Third World countries.The U.S. Congress must cut off all funding to the UN to prevent it from transforming the economic structure of the world.